They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are 3000 words:
This is what the white dragon sees:
These crocuses are right by my front walk.
I got my peas planted, too:
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where do you live that you are planting peas? My crocus are up too but they are up through the snow (hence, I suppose, their name: snow crocus). Haven’t seen any snowdrops, though. But they’ve not be thriving so I may have none left.
I live in the Missouri Ozarks. Our rule of thumb here is to try to get the peas in by Valentine’s day. Only this year, that day was freezing cold, icy with bitter winds, plus there was snow on the ground. So I aimed for as soon after that as the ground was workable.
Today we put up the pea fences (cattle panels) and I put the floating row cover on top of the seed beds under the bottom of the fence and weighted at the sides with slabs of marble and limestone. This will keep the cardinals and blue jays and redwinged blackbirds from eating the pea sprouts the second they peek through the soil.
If we do not get the peas in as early as possible in the spring, they don’t make because they do not like it if it gets hot. It is a race between getting to eat sweet succulent peas and the first hot days of May. Once it warms up too much, the peas are DONE.
What I wouldn’t give to be planting peas! Alas, my garden is covered in many feet of snow still … I had no idea that, by May, it gets too hot for the peas. Thank you for the crocus pictures.
I can relate to the many feet of snow, both from college years in Fairbanks AK and girlhood in the mountains of Colorado. The variations in temperature make it quite challenging to time the garden. On the other hand, it never gets so cold that my greens in the coldframes completely die. We had an amazing salad with our lunch, made completely of greens from the garden and home made pickled beets from last year. Mmm. Spectacular.